Featured Stories in 100 Mile Diet

In and around Barcelona slow food and local delicatessen have become quite the thing lately. Projects like the slow food restaurant Fastvínic or the happy pig farm Finca del Saüc are popping up like mushrooms. Via the blog

Community Supported Agriculture is now widespread in many U.S. cities and towns- you can find the ones nearest you at the great resource Local Harvest - as a way for farmers to get the economic support they need to keep

When James MacKinnon and Alisa Smith first wrote about the 100 Mile Diet in the Tyee in 2005 it was like a bomb going off. Their personal story became a meme, and a big part of the local food movement. It was a personal challenge by two young urbanites

I'm originally from Charlottesville, Va., just one hour away from beautiful small town Lexington, Va., and the home of Full Circle Catering. Full Circle’s owner, Jenny Elmes, is proof that just one person can make a large

While having coffee with another design blogger, we discussed the future of design in the new economy. I suggested that furniture might follow food: people will want to look the designer in the eye to ensure that they are getting something built to

How Much Canola Does it Take to Fry a Turkey?
From moving toward vegetarianism to buying local, organic or free range for the Thanksgiving table, TreeHugger and Planet Green are both full of examples of how we can enhance our celebrations by nurturing a

Community Supported Agriculture is now widespread in many U.S. cities and towns- you can find the ones nearest you at the great resource Local Harvest - as a way for farmers to get the economic support they need to keep

Year after year of the same turkey, stuffing and cranberry sauce can be tiresome. This Thanksgiving why not try out something new using only local ingredients found within a 100-mile radius of your home. Bahar Zakar, winner of the 2006 100-Mile

Here in Park Slope, Halloween ended and the next day Christmas decorations and sale signs dotted the avenue blocks. Whether those sorts of stunts get you in the holiday spirit, or get you more excited for Buy Nothing Day, I’ll take the middle road and

NPR reported this morning that a new group in San Francisco aims to take the work out of growing your own food in your own backyard with MyFarm. San Francisco is not known for having huge backyards, or much sun depending on what

So eating local and the 100-mile diet sounds good to you, but you're a college kid on a meal-plan. You don't get to choose your food any more than you got to choose that night-owl roomate of yours. Well help is on the way

Bread — Stanley Saitowitz | Natoma Architects
Slow Food Nation is a celebration of food in America, taking place in San Francisco over the Labor Day weekend. It is "the first-ever American collaborative gathering to unite the growing sustainable f

Mark Your Calendars, its time once again for the 5th annual Sustainable Ballard Festival, full of fun festival games like "how to grow chickens in the city" and "the best compost contest." While this is not your

This is the first post in an occasional series by Deane Brebner and Don Bissonnette, who will be guest blogging about living of the grid. The Challenge
During a lull in the conversation on a road trip, Don suggested to Deane that we go off the grid for a

Permaculture is a tricky thing to define. (See our attempts here.) Kinda like trying to describe a forest. All that interdependency is just too complex to squeeze into a sound bite. But that doesn't stop Permablitz from trying:

Permaculture is a practice we’re rather partial to here at TreeHugger. It is a concept that defies simple definition, but has to do with designing human spaces, and particularly food production, so as to optimise lessons learnt from nature. Originally

So this is what it has come to, the only place left to turn in a world awash in chemicals masquerading as food: "Human dairy, the taste of mother's love." Human Cheese is made fresh from human breast milk, which you can verify yourself because the

2007 was a big year for local food -- big enough that we'll have another "Best of 2007" dedicated to a specific local food practice, the "100 Mile Diet" -- and on the tip of enough tongues that it was named the 2007 word of the year. Here are some of the